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<div class="field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> (Cover Story, Sunday Magazine of La Repubblica, Domenica 11 Marzo 2018)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/gianluigi_ricuperati">Gianluigi Ricuperati</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[3.19.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p> </p>
<div class="views-field-title rtecenter"><span style="font-size:28px;"><span style="color:#800000;"><em style="font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><strong>“If the creation of contemporary culture had a global hero, his name would coincide with that of John Brockman.”</strong></em></span></span>
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<img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/images/repubblicalogoNEW.png" style="width: 350px; height: 76px;" /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/images/repubblica_cover.png" style="width: 250px; height: 346px;" /><img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/images/repubblica_cover1.png" style="width: 250px; height: 343px;" /></p></div>
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<p><em>[EDITOR'S NOTE: On March 11<sup>th</sup>, the Sunday magazine of </em>La Repubblica<em> (Italy's largest newspaper) featured </em>Edge<em> in its cover story, translating excerpts by Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Alison Gopnik, Ian McEwan, June Gruber, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Richard Thaler and Brian Eno, from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062698214/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=authorweb-20">This Idea is Brilliant</a>, the recently published </em>Edge <em>Question book, plus a new interview with the editor of </em>EDGE<em> (yours truly) by the Italian writer <a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/gianluigi_ricuperati">Gianluigi Ricuperati</a>, who is also active in the </em>Edge <em>community. —JB]</em></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:28px;"><strong>THIRTEEN RECOMMENDATIONS</strong></span>
<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong>Scientists and artists. Called to answer a simple, so to speak, question: "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" From the thinkers of <em>Edge </em>to books by other writers, here's 13 (lucky number) answers. </strong></span></p></div>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">[Click on images for original Edge publication in English)</span></strong> </p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27237" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/rdlr.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 102px;" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27111" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/jd.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 84px;" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27100" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/im.jpg" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27020" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/ag.jpg" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27109" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/obristlr.jpg" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/image/jg.jpg" /><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27233" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/jg.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 118px;" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27147" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/images/belr.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 101px;" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>The Book</strong><br /><em>This Idea is Brilliant</em> (Harper Collins). Published in the United States in January, It is the latest anthology curated by John Brockman for the site Edge.org. Every year, in December, Scientists and humanist members of the Edge community receive an email with a question. In 2017 the question was: "What Scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" The following texts are published here (translated byIsabella Zani): Richard Dawkins ("The Genetic Book of the Dead"), Jared Diamond ("Common Sense"), Ian McEwan ("The Navier-Stokes Equations"), Alison Gopnik ("Life History”), Hans Ulrich Obrist ("The Gaia Hypothesis"), June Gruber ("Emotion Contagion”), Brian Eno (“Confirmation Bias”). Richard Thaler (“The Premortem”); Interview with John Brockman ("Don’t Fear Digital. Use it.”). They were selected by Gianluigi Ricuperati, himself a member of the Edge community. The previous Brockman/Edge books are published in Italy by Il Saggiatore: <em>What Will Change Everything?</em> and <em>What Do You Believe is True but Cannot Prove? </em> </p>
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<p class="rtecenter"><em style="font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><strong>“Science is not an answer, but a method, which, being based on falsifiability, is an endless process."</strong></em></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(255, 0, 153);">JOHN BROCKMAN</strong></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 35px;">Don't Fear Digital: Use It</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">Interview by Gianluigi Ricuperati 3.11.2018</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>If the creation of contemporary culture had a global hero, his name would coincide with that of John Brockman, the seventy-seven-year-old driver of the Edge.org site, a community of scientists and humanists among whom are the most relevant figures of today’s culture. Brockman's other job, as agent, allowed him to earn the confidence of Nobel laureates, while writing essays such as “The Third Culture”. It is Brockman, who has collected the brilliant ideas that we are publishing in these pages.</strong></span></p>
<div><strong style="font-size: 25px;">When did this adventure begin?</strong></div>
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<p>In 1965, I was managing the avant-garde Filmmakers' Cinematheque in New York, founded by the great Jonas Mekas. I was twenty-four years old. I had founded my own financial leasing company and during the day went to my Park Avenue office wearing a three-piece Brooks Brothers suit. But at night I went down downtown to Theatre Genesis at St. Marks in the Bowery, where I helped set up the theatre along with a recently arrived playwright Sam Shepard, and his roommate, Charlie Mingus, Jr.</p>
<p>I started a film program at St. Marks which caught the attention of Mekas who asked me to manage the Cinematheque, where I commissioned works by artists such as Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, with a $50 budget for each. During that period, John Cage organized series of dinners every month or so at the home of Fluxus co-founder and poet Dick Higgins, where Cage cooked mushrooms for a small group of artists and thinkers, and talked about the ideas of people like Claude Shannon, Marshall McLuhan, Norbert Wiener. I was surrounded by ­­­unique people: scientists, and also, artists like Cage who were obsessed with science, especially cybernetics.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 25px;">What sparked your interest in the digital revolution?</strong></p>
<p>In 1984, as the personal computer revolution came of age, I had an interesting idea: US law dictates that whatever you write, you own. And software is, in effect, a text. Since I already ran a literary agency I realized that I could also represent authors of software, the people who wrote code. Within a year I had 60 software clients and landed 7-figure deals for a few of them. This caught the attention of the press, and after I held a dinner for my clients in Las Vegas in 1985, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article entitled “Entrepreneur Hosts Millionaires’ Dinner.” This dinner became an annual event and was avidly covered in the press as “The Millionaires’ Dinner”. That changed in 1999, when some of the reporters in attendance made note that 11 of the dinner guests flew in for the dinner in their own private jets. Thus, “The Billionaires’ Dinner” came into being. People at the most recent dinner calculated that the net worth of the 40 guests equaled the combined wealth of 60% of all Americans. That’s when I realized that it was time to retire the dinner.</p>
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<p><strong style="font-size: 25px;">By the way, aren't the Silicon Valley billionaires also reshaping our mental ecosystem?</strong></p>
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<p>Yes, of course. One of the unforeseen consequences of the Digital Revolution are the enormous challenges we face due to the concentration of power and market dominance of the major internet companies and the malign societal effects of their products and business practices. We need to come up with fresh ideas of how to begin to think about how we deal with the profound changes to our human condition in this era.</p>
<p>As to the individuals driving these changes, I've known all of them since they began their careers, and many are my friends. I believe that they all started out as well-intentioned, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for example, were sincere when adopted the motto ‘Don’t be evil’. I sense that the people running these companies have lost control. Certainly, Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, did not anticipate that Donald Trump, with 45 million Twitter followers, would weaponized the platform.</p>
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<p><strong style="font-size: 25px;">There are those who define the world of Edge as "neopositivist", with an unshakable belief that science is the answer to all problems.</strong></p>
<p>I disagree. Science is not an answer, but a method, which, being based on falsifiability, is an endless process.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 25px;">Isn't this also a cultural enterprise that has economic implications? Does money improve or worsen the quality of research?</strong></p>
<p>I have always tried to maintain a balance between my ‘business’ side and the obsessive intellectual curiosity that drives me. By 1973, my trilogy, By The Late John Brockman, had been published and I decided that I could start a literary agency for the kind of books that interested me which weren’t even on the radar of the so-called New York ‘intellectuals’ whose 1950s education in Freud, Marx and modernism, left them clueless in a rapidly changing world But business has its own imperatives and a company either grows or dies. Within a year I was working 12-hour days and not thinking about writing.</p>
<p>Later that year, my friend and first client, the evolutionary biologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, came for lunch and expressed concern about my maintaining my dual roles. And then he gave me some advice that I still think about every day, forty-five years later: "Of all our human inventions, Homo economicus is by far the dullest".</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:29:23 +0000edge_manager27829 at https://www.edge.orgA Common Sensehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-a-common-sense
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A Conversation With</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/caroline_a_jones">Caroline A. Jones</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[3.15.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-linked-image field-type-linkimagefield field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edge.org/sites/default/files/conversation/leadimage/CarolineA_Jones2.jpg" width="2000" height="1126" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/images/EdgeVidAudio2.png" style="height: 75px; width: 640px;" /></p>
<p><em>We need to acknowledge our profound ignorance and begin to craft a culture that will be based on some notion of communalism and interspecies symbiosis rather than survival of the fittest. These concepts are available and fully elaborated by, say, a biologist like Lynn Margulis, but they're still not the central paradigm. They’re still not organizing our research or driving our culture and our cultural evolution. That’s what I’m frustrated with. There’s so much good intellectual work, so much good philosophy, so much good biology—how can we make that more central to what we do? </em></p>
<p>CAROLINE A. JONES is professor of art history in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. <strong><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/caroline_a_jones" target="_blank">Caroline A. Jones's <em>Edge </em>Bio page</a> </strong></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:33:21 +0000edge_manager27819 at https://www.edge.orgWe Are Here To Createhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/kai_fu_lee-we-are-here-to-create
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A Conversation With</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/kai_fu_lee">Kai-Fu Lee</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[3.15.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-linked-image field-type-linkimagefield field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edge.org/sites/default/files/conversation/leadimage/KFLee%20copy.jpg" width="2000" height="1126" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/images/EdgeVidAudio2.png" style="height: 75px; width: 640px;" /></p>
<p class="rteindent1"><em>My original dream of finding who we are and why we exist ended up in a failure. Even though we invented all these wonderful tools that will be great for our future, for our kids, for our society, we have not figured out why humans exist. What is interesting for me is that in understanding that these AI tools are doing repetitive tasks, it certainly comes back to tell us that doing repetitive tasks can’t be what makes us humans. The arrival of AI will at least remove what cannot be our reason for existence on this earth. If that’s half of our job tasks, then that’s half of our time back to thinking about why we exist. One very valid reason for existing is that we are here to create. What AI cannot do is perhaps a potential reason for why we exist. One such direction is that we create. We invent things. We celebrate creation. We’re very creative about scientific process, about curing diseases, about writing books, writing movies, creative about telling stories, doing a brilliant job in marketing. This is our creativity that we should celebrate, and that’s perhaps what makes us human.</em><br />
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<p>KAI-FU LEE, founder of Sinovation Ventures, was listed by Forbes as #1 in technology in China. Prior to that, he was Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and the founder of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, one of the world’s top research labs; and then Google Corporate President and the President of Google Greater China. He is the author of the forthcoming <em>AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. </em><span style="font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em> </em></span><strong><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/kai_fu_lee" target="_blank">Kai-Fu Lee's <em>Edge </em>Bio page</a> </strong></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:13:54 +0000edge_manager27826 at https://www.edge.orgChurch Speakshttps://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-church-speaks
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A Conversation With</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/george_church">George Church</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.14.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-linked-image field-type-linkimagefield field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://www.edge.org/sites/default/files/conversation/leadimage/George_Church.jpg" width="1949" height="1236" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/images/EdgeVidAudio2.png" style="height: 75px; width: 640px;" /></p>
<p><em>The biggest energy creators in the world, the ones that take solar energy and turn it into a form that’s useful to humans, are these photosynthetic organisms. The cyanobacteria fix [carbon via] light as well or better than land plants. Under ideal circumstances, they can be maybe seven to ten times more productive per photon. . . .</em></p>
<p><em>Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global warming gas, into carbohydrates and other carbon-containing polymers, which sequester the carbon so that they're no longer global warming gases. They turn it into their own bodies. They do this on such a big scale that about 15 percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is fixed every year by these cyanobacteria, which is roughly the amount that we’re off from the pre-industrial era. If all of the material that they fix didn’t turn back into carbon dioxide, we’d have solved the global warming problem in a year or two. The reality, however, is that almost as soon as they divide and make baby bacteria, phages break them open, spilling their guts, and they start turning into carbon dioxide. Then all the other things around them start chomping on the bits left over from the phages.</em></p>
<p>GEORGE CHURCH is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, director of the Personal Genome Project, and co-author (with Ed Regis) of <em>Regenesis.</em><em> </em><strong><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/george_church" target="_blank">George Church's <em>Edge </em>Bio page</a> </strong></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:34:31 +0000edge_manager27467 at https://www.edge.orgJohn Perry Barlow (1947-2018)https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-john-perry-barlow-1947-2018
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/george_dyson">George Dyson</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.14.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="http://www.edge.org/images/Barlow.png" style="width: 441px; height: 416px;" /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/john_perry_barlow" target="_blank">John Perry Barlow</a> (1947-2018)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 35px;"><b>The Barlow Knife</b></span><br />
By George Dyson<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);"> </span></p>
<p>John Perry Barlow, one of the Internet’s founding provocateurs, was born on October 3, 1947 and died on February 7, 2018.</p>
<p> Among my treasured works at the foundations of American history is the 1919 edition of <em>The Tryal of William Penn &amp; William Mead for Causing a Tumult, at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670,</em> with a dedication by Don C. Seitz “to the memory of Thomas Jefferson which needs frequent refreshing.” For the same reason, <a href="https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_perry_barlow-john-perry-barlow-1947-2018#coyote">John Brockman’s 1996 interview with John Perry Barlow</a> is reproduced below.</p>
<p>The bible of the 1960s, when Barlow gained prominence, was the <em>Whole Earth Catalog</em>, a direct progenitor of the personal computer and Internet revolutions that was subtitled <em>Access to Tools</em>. The Barlow knife was (and is) a rugged pocket knife with two blades, one large and one small. Inexpensive and understated, it was forged from the best American steel. It was no multi-tool but it held an edge like nothing else and was essential to life on the American frontier. George Washington owned one. I dropped my first Barlow knife overboard in 200 fathoms and it hurt.</p>
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<p>John Perry Barlow took after the knife. With the small blade he stayed in the background as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead. With his “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”, issued at Davos in February of 1996, he opened the large blade and sliced into the emerging Internet, carving out an entire territory for himself and his brain-child, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).</p>
<p>The remarkable thing about Barlow’s wild warnings and prophecies is that they weren’t wild enough. He warned that the Government would step in to control the Internet under the guise of controlling pornography, whereas pornography turned out to be one of the greatest and least regulated drivers of the Internet’s uncontrolled growth. He reminded us that “there has always been a relationship between the performer and the audience that hasn't been well mapped,” and that “you would never claim to own your friendships.” Then two of the currently wealthiest plantation owners on the Internet stepped in and became so by doing just that.</p>
<p>In a mere twenty years, we have gone from fears of the Government controlling the Internet to fears of the Internet controlling the Government. </p>
<p>Keep one hand on your Barlow knife.</p>
<p class="rteright">—GD</p>
<hr /></div></div></div>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:06:34 +0000edge_manager27773 at https://www.edge.orgSchirrmacher's Heritagehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/andrian_kreye-schirrmachers-heritage
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/andrian_kreye">Andrian Kreye</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.14.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <h3><strong>A book of essays claims the authority to interpret, carries the militant title "Reclaim Autonomy”, and demands self-empowerment.</strong><br />
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<div>The questions of how science and technology are transforming life and society are among the greatest intellectual challenges that surprisingly few of today's intellectuals take on. One of the first to do so was<em> FAZ</em> editor Frank Schirrmacher, who died in 2014. So it was not only an gesture of respect, but also an attempt at a programmatic continuation, when the publisher of the weekly Freitag, <em>Jakob Augstein</em>, dedicated a symposium on digital debate to Frank Schirrmacher.</div>
</div></div></div>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:31:01 +0000edge_manager27816 at https://www.edge.orgDigerati - Chapter 9https://www.edge.org/conversation/esther_dyson-digerati-chapter-9
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/esther_dyson">Esther Dyson</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.13.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>THE PATTERN-RECOGNIZER</strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>Esther Dyson</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>THE COYOTE (John Perry Barlow)</strong>:<strong> </strong>Esther is the smartest woman I know. She would rather have me say she is one of the five smartest humans I know, which I could also say. But I'll stick with calling her the smartest woman I know because there is something about the combination of that kind of intelligence and femininity which is still too rare in the computer field. There is a quality to her insight that is not masculine and is incredibly powerful as a result.</em></p>
<p><strong>Esther Dyson</strong> is president of EDventure Holdings and editor of Release 1.0. Her PC Forum conference is an annual industry event.</p>
<hr /></div></div></div>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:20:24 +0000edge_manager27785 at https://www.edge.orgDigerati - Chapter 20https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_mccrea-digerati-chapter-20
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/john_mccrea">John McCrea</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.13.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>THE FORCE</strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>John McCrea</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>THE WEBMASTER (Kip Parent)</strong>: John McCrea has been a tremendous force at Silicon Graphics. He was able to rally the engineering and marketing people in the company around the Web, and he managed to build the WebFORCE product line into a rapidly growing business within the company. It is a tremendous success. John is definitely someone who sees the big picture and has a vision. He rallies people around him and makes things happen. </em></p>
<p><strong>John McCrea</strong> is the manager of Cosmo, Silicon Graphics's next-generation Web software product line.</p>
<hr /></div></div></div>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:51:13 +0000edge_manager27796 at https://www.edge.orgDigerati - Prologuehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/john_brockman-digerati-prologue
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/john_brockman">John Brockman</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.13.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p align="center"><strong>Prologue</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>1966</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">
<em>"Love Intermedia Kinetic Environments." John Brockman speaking ­ partly kidding, but conveying the notion that Intermedia Kinetic Environments are In in the places where the action is ­ an Experience, an Event, an Environment, a humming electric world." </em></p>
<p align="center">—<em> The New York Times</em></p>
<hr /></div></div></div>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:52:15 +0000edge_manager27775 at https://www.edge.orgDigerati - Chapter 31https://www.edge.org/conversation/sherry_turkle-digerati-chapter-31
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-edge-author field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="member-name"><a href="/memberbio/sherry_turkle">Sherry Turkle</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">[2.13.18]</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p class="rtecenter"><strong>Chapter 31 </strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>THE CYBERANALYST </strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>Sherry Turkle</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>THE PATTERN-RECOGNIZER (Esther Dyson):</em></strong><em> Sherry Turkle probably understands better than anyone how people transfer their emotions onto the Net: sometimes they go through the Net to other people, but sometimes they just stop at the Net and start having an emotional involvement with the Net itself. </em></p>
<p><strong>Sherry Turkle </strong>is a professor of the sociology of science at MIT. She is the author of <em>Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet </em>(1995); <em>The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit </em>(1984); and <em>Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution</em> (1978).</p>
<hr /></div></div></div>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:37:02 +0000edge_manager27807 at https://www.edge.org